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  Anyone who watched Prime Ministers Questions today will have noticed the rather bizarre situation brought up by Ed Miliband in one of his questions to the Prime Minister.
  
  A policeman from the west midlands was forced to retire under rule A19 which allows the authority to force a policeman out of the job once he reaches 30 years service.
  
  The amazing situation is this... a whole batch of policeman have been forced out now under this A19 regulation by way of meeting the Conservative government cuts. Losing experienced officers, losing quality etc.
  
  But here is the sting in the tail.. a number of these forced out officers have been contacted (some of them even as soon as 2 weeks into forced retirement) and asked to come back to work as voluntary constables for no pay at all. In other words to do the same job but for nothing, no pay at all, zilch, zero.
  
  This is the most awful and obnoxious situation. If a police officer has given 30 years to the community, is then forced out, forced out, which shouldnt happen anyway, but is then asked by the same Police Authority to come back to work again but this time for nothing...well its just plain awful.
  
  Is this the so called Big Society in action? Its not a very good Big Society if it is. More like the BIG Cheap Society. Mr Cameron had no real answer to the question today but as ever plays to his own gallery in the hope that the problems go away. Miliband is a much improved performer in recent times and has ruffled Cameron's smooth exterior several times.

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